David Johansen
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Well, I'm finally making good progress on revising the magic system for The Arcane Confabulation, my fantasy heartbreaker but I want to do something to make it stand out among fantasy heartbreakers . Yes I'm using the term loosely as it's not all that D&D like even if it did start out as an all percentile D&D variant.
So, here's the plan, I want to do wooden boxed sets with foam inserts full of figures. I'm a bit torn between 54mm and 28mm. It'd mostly be DIY. I love 54mm but 28mm would allow me to put a lot more figures in the box for a lot less. I sculpt but my casting success rate is pretty low. Still, a big box with a 54mm dragon would be pretty neat. I'm torn between multilevel modular terrain models and cardstock but realistically, a $1000 treasure chest probably doesn't have a big customer base. I think it'd be neat to have some indoor tiles and a fold up castle and ship, maybe a siege tower. If you've got a castle you might want a siege tower.
Anyhow, the idea is to have each figure have a separate head and weapon hand to maximize variety. You can have lots of variety with fewer moulds that way. So, I'm thinking orcs, elves, dwarves, goblins, skeletons, men at arms and bandits. Some of the models would be trios of individuals like the sorceress, lady, and female rogue and maybe man at arms, knight, and warrior. I'd also like to include a couple horses, wolves, an ogre, and, of course, a dragon.
I suppose it might make a good kickstarter campaign with the megabox being the top tier. I think if I got the wargame and campaign rules done you could even break it apart a bit and do things like army boxes and a just the rule pdf level.
Ambition, thy name is vanity. What's your crazy dream project?
So, here's the plan, I want to do wooden boxed sets with foam inserts full of figures. I'm a bit torn between 54mm and 28mm. It'd mostly be DIY. I love 54mm but 28mm would allow me to put a lot more figures in the box for a lot less. I sculpt but my casting success rate is pretty low. Still, a big box with a 54mm dragon would be pretty neat. I'm torn between multilevel modular terrain models and cardstock but realistically, a $1000 treasure chest probably doesn't have a big customer base. I think it'd be neat to have some indoor tiles and a fold up castle and ship, maybe a siege tower. If you've got a castle you might want a siege tower.
Anyhow, the idea is to have each figure have a separate head and weapon hand to maximize variety. You can have lots of variety with fewer moulds that way. So, I'm thinking orcs, elves, dwarves, goblins, skeletons, men at arms and bandits. Some of the models would be trios of individuals like the sorceress, lady, and female rogue and maybe man at arms, knight, and warrior. I'd also like to include a couple horses, wolves, an ogre, and, of course, a dragon.
I suppose it might make a good kickstarter campaign with the megabox being the top tier. I think if I got the wargame and campaign rules done you could even break it apart a bit and do things like army boxes and a just the rule pdf level.
Ambition, thy name is vanity. What's your crazy dream project?